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African dance

Photo: Noel Bégin/Decidedly Jazz Danceworks
  • Book Reviews

Book Review: Getting Down to the Roots of Jazz Dance

Darcy Grabenstein

The Africanist aesthetic as essential to jazz dance theory, pedagogy, and choreography.

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  • Reviews

“Dancing the World Smaller” Tackles the Big Topic of Cultural Dance in America

Darcy Grabenstein

Aesthetic and cultural debates spurred by midcentury international performances

Photo: Terrell Halsey
  • Reviews

Kulu Mele: Dancing with and for the Ancestors

Christina Catanese

The African dance and drum ensemble celebrates 50 years in Philadelphia with a new film at the BlackStar Film Festival

Photo: Jaci Downs
  • Reviews

Everything You’ve Come From and Everywhere You’ll Go

Sara Graybeal

A festival of lights.

Photo: Kùlú Mèlé
  • Reviews

Let the Roots Show – A Celebration of Dance, Life and Community

Lynnette Young Overby

This first-ever collaboration between Kùlú Mèlé and The Requisite Movers proved a rich cultural experience, from beginning libations to a final invitation onstage.

Photo: Royal Drummers & Dancers
  • Reviews

The Royal Drummers and Dancers of Burundi: A Lesson On and Off the Stage

Kariamu Welsh

Representing difference, they give us new information about Africa and its many traditions.